ParagonComplex:I'm still surprised at people ever thinking Facebook stock would do well to begin with. You don't invest in fads, and like it or not, social media is more of a fad than an advent.

Well, the idea that everybody thought that Facebook shares were going to soar, and that it was a complete shock when they crashed instead, is purely the myth of the Wall Street commentariat. I spend a fair amount of time online hanging around sites for stock traders. Everybody that I spoke to in the lead up to the IPO were howling with laughter at the initial market cap valuation...it was simply common wisdom that the shares were going to dive, and hard, pretty much from the get-go.